Ad Wars: Apple Fights Back With Four "Get a Mac" Commercials

From DailyTech: The roots of the "Ad wars" began years ago when Apple first launched a smarmy commercial spot -- the first "Get a Mac" commercial, which depicted Windows PCs as inept and ineffectual, a message made especially insulting given that many interpreted the PC character as...

AMD SB850 Chipset Specs, Roadmap Revealed

From Tom's Hardware: It's unknown whether or not the images are leaked, officially released, or completely fake, however Expreview posted three AMD slides highlighting the company's chipset roadmap. The slides are comprised of the south bridges, performance north bridges (IGP and...

Intel to Release Six-Core Chips for Desktops in a Year

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. is projected to release its first six-core microprocessors for desktops in the second quarter of 2010, nearly two years after the company began shipments of six-core chips for high-end x86 servers.

Intel Gulftown processors – which will be drop-in...

Microsoft leaks Windows 7 RC delivery date

From InfoWorld: Microsoft will deliver a release candidate of Windows 7 in little more than two weeks, the company's Web site revealed Saturday.

According to a page posted on Microsoft's partner program site, Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) may be available to paying subscribers to...

Toshiba Jumps to 10-inch Screen on New Netbooks

From PC World: The UX-series netbooks are based on the N280 version of Intel's Atom chip that the chip maker began shipping in February, and come with 1GB of memory and a 160GB hard disk drive.

The display is a 10.1-inch LCD with 1,024x600 pixel resolution. Toshiba's previous Atom...

Oracle to buy Sun in $7.4 billion deal

From CNET News.com: Oracle and Sun announced Monday that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. That puts the value of the transaction at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun's cash...

Report: "Badass" Hulu App Coming to iPhone

From DailyTech: The iPhone is about to get a little cooler. Hot off taking the internet world by storm, internet site Hulu, which offers commercial-supported streaming TV from Fox and NBC, is set to make the jump to mobile devices with a new iPhone app. The new app is set to...

IBM’s Bulk Alliance Set to Make Chips Using 28nm Production Process

From X-bit Labs: BM’s Bulk Process Alliance – which includes Chartered Semiconductor, Globalfoundries, IBM, Infineon Technologies, Samsung Electronics and ST Microelectronics – on Thursday said that that it would start making chips using low power 28nm fabrication process with high-K...

Samsung, Dell provide data encryption for SSDs

From InfoWorld: Samsung Electronics on Thursday said it is boosting security on solid-state drives by bundling data encryption software with SSDs it ships.

The company is bundling software from Wave Systems' Embassy management software to encrypt data on its SSDs with storage...

YouTube signs Sony, preps site for studio conten

From PC World: The Internet's largest video site on Thursday announced that it has struck deals with a host of entertainment companies, including Sony Pictures, CBS (parent company of CNET News), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Lionsgate, Starz, and the BBC, to acquire "thousands" of TV...

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